Tambopata Books
Lifting Heaven: The Twilight of the Gods in Ancient Egypt
by Chris Karcher
While a king and his two queens engage in a brutal struggle for power in Alexandria, an eccentric royal priest takes a mysterious religious text with him on a trip to visit an ancient Egyptian temple far to the south and the unintended consequences of this seemingly inconsequential act prove to be deadly. Purchase from Amazon »
Tambopata Collection
South America
Artifacts — The majority of these
artifacts are pre-Columbian, although one piece dates from just after the conquest. They are also mostly
from Peru, specifically the Moche, Nazca, and Lambayeque civilizations. A few find their origins in
other South American countries, such as Equador and Columbia. [View
artifacts »]
Maps — These maps represent early
attempts to illustrate the geography of the southern part of the New World. They range in date from
1597 to 1853, and include work by British, French, and Danish cartographers. [View
maps »]
Bibiliography — These are all books in
our collection that have shed light on our artifacts, as well as on the history and art of the civilizations
which created them. These boooks are all recomended for further study on South American indigenous cultures.
[View bibliography »]
Egypt
Papyri — These
papyri are written in either Coptic or Greek. Several of the Coptic documents mention a
previously attested priest named Apa Sabinos which allows those papyrus to be dated to the
late 5th/early 6th centuries and to determine their most likely place of origin as Hermopolis.
[View papyri »]
Coming soon: Egyptian artifacts, maps & bibliography. Stay tuned...
A Note About the Collection
It would be comforting to believe that everyone respected ancient artifacts as shared objects that define our universal cultural heritage and were aware of the irreparable loss that tomb looting causes. Sadly this is not reality, for many reasons, and I would be remiss if no comment on this fact were included here.